Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006

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Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:51AM from the timely-disclosure dept.

Orome1 writes "After having first claimed that the source code leaked by Indian hacking group Dharmaraja was not stolen through a breach of its networks, but possibly by compromising the networks of a third-party entity, Symantec backpedalled and announced that the code seems to have exfiltrated during a 2006 breach of its systems. Symantec spokesman Cris Paden has confirmed that unknown hackers have managed to get their hands on the source code to the following Symantec solutions: Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Internet Security, Norton Utilities, Norton GoBack and pcAnywhere."

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Obviously, I'm going to have to switch to McAfee by elrous0 · 2012-01-19 03:57 · Score: 5, Funny

That'll be a lot better, right?

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In their defence... by nick357 · 2012-01-19 03:59 · Score: 4, Funny

...they were running McAfee at the time!

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"exfiltrated" by Baloroth · 2012-01-19 04:01 · Score: 5, Funny

the code seems to have exfiltrated
Wow, must be bad working at Symantec. Even the code wants to escape.

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Re:Surely this is a good thing... by Krneki · 2012-01-19 04:35 · Score: 5, Funny

They tried, but apparently removing norton proved to be too difficult.

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Re:Thanks a bunch by nigelo · 2012-01-19 05:25 · Score: 3, Funny

> Little bastard has hooks all over the place
This was my experience with Symantec software, too.

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Re:Thanks a bunch by operagost · 2012-01-19 07:42 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm glad you aren't a physician.

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